Was it an issue of survival or a sanctioned slaughter? Florida’s black bear hunt was controversial from the start. So last Sunday, Post photographer Brianna Soukup went out to document the hunt. She visited a check-in station for hunters at the Dinner Island Ranch Wildlife Management Area, about 30 miles...

The man who owns a million-dollar car has his eye on one classic this week. Forget that the annual Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach Auction expects to eclipse the $25 million in sales of exquisite cars from last year. Or that the majority of the more-than 55,000 people who come between Friday and Sunday will...

Special effects makeup maven and G-Star graduate Emily Serpico outlasted 13 of the original artists competing on the Syfy television show Face Off making it to the Season Finale where she finished in the top three. A Wellington resident, Serpico began taping as the youngest contestant in the show’s...

Palm Beach Post photographers cover everything that happens in Palm Beach County, from sunrise to sunset, from sports to theatrics, from moments of joy to the deepest tragedies. At the end of each year, we ask these journalists to pick the photos that speak to them out of their diverse portfolio from...

Palm Beach Post visual journalist Lannis Waters begins his work day before many of us are awake. His primary responsibility is to cover breaking news, but he also gets to share in the wonders of South Florida’s stunning sunrises. “At 6:00 am when I start work every day, my responsibility...

Today’s world is leaky. Your email, your phone, your Facebook posts. Anyone can spy on you. But not if you use a typewriter. That’s why Germany recently announced it’s considering using manual typewriters to produce sensitive documents. Robert Hinson lives in the past. Wrong … make...

The Vans Warped Tour, once a touchstone of punk rock and a vaunted icon of counterculture, on Saturday hosted the least “punk” entity of all time: grandparents. But the tour’s typical demographic didn’t seem to mind. “This is definitely my kind of music,” said Lake Worth native Carolyn Fiebert,...

Lord of the Flies loves a good selfie. He preens as if he knows the world is watching, poses as if his mysterious innards don’t stink. Lord of the Flies is his stage name, of course, because every celebu-plant must have one. He’s the world’s smelliest plant and he bloomed in a thicket of Loxahatchee...

The USS New York is a floating reminder of 9/11. “It’s like serving in World War II on the USS Pearl Harbor.” Six feet 2 inches of Navy-grade muscle with forged-in-steel self-assurance to match, Command Master Chief Shawn Isbell is unquestionably a front-line kind of guy. But whenever...

A flock of flamingos the size of which hasn’t been seen in Florida since the late 1800s moved into a remote stretch of Palm Beach County last week. While the mob of 147 shrimpy pink birds were caught on camera, attempts by Audubon experts to tag them failed and by Wednesday, authorities were stealthily...